NORTH COAST, Calif. \u2013 A deadly equine virus that affected nearly two dozen California horses this spring was confirmed in three Sonoma County horses last week, according to state officials.<\/p>\n
The neurotropathogenic strain of equine herpes virus was confirmed in a 15-year-old Oldenburg mare in Sonoma County on Aug. 23, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.<\/p>\n
CDFA said the mare subsequently as isolated, quarantined and undergoing treatment at a veterinary hospital.<\/p>\n
Horses at the same premises where the mare initially was located had their temperatures monitored twice daily, and on Aug. 24 two horses with the neuropathogenic strain of EHV-1 were confirmed there, the state said.<\/p>\n
The two affected horses showed fever as the only clinical sign, state officials said.<\/p>\n
Besides a fever of 102 degrees Fahrenheit or greater, other clinical signs the CDFA identified include nasal discharge, lack of coordination, hindquarter weakness and a diminished tail bone, lethargy, urine dribbling, and the horse lying down more than normal. Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A deadly equine virus that affected nearly two dozen California horses this spring was confirmed in three Sonoma County horses last week, according to state officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}